Thank you all for your really encouraging and generally lovely comments about my pregnancy! You guys are awesome!
They brightened up my generally nauseous day. Believe me, I have been through the mill with this supposedly 'morning' sickness. Mine is more like all day sickness.
I saw my midwife for the first time on monday, it was an experience that I won't forget because suddenly my pregnancy was 'official'. She hit me with a shocker though. She thinks I'm due on the 26th April but by my dates I think I'm due 5th May.
Let me tell you how I worked my date out. I was temping so I knew I ovulated on the 12 th of August which was cycle day 24. So even though according to my LMP i'm due when she said because I didn't ovulate on day 14 like most women, the method of using Last Menstrual Period dates isn't accurate. However, I'm waiting for a dating scan to determine the agreed due date. It is so confusing.
I can't wait for the scan so I'm sure where I am at with this pregnancy!
On other news, I told my Boss and she seemed quite happy about it. I just had to reassure them that I'm gonna come back after Maternity Leave which is a year in the UK.
Friday, 24 September 2010
Saturday, 18 September 2010
The One where I tell All
If you have been watching carefully, You would have noticed a new widget in my sidebar.
Yes, you know the one, the one titled my little bean.
I'm Pregnant.
I said it. Gosh it feels soooooooo good to be able to tell you guys.
I had to shut up about it until we told our mums and then after that, I had to be careful with work (still have to be) I don't want to say anything to them till after the 12 week scan.
Just to make sure everything is OK.
How did it happen you ask? Well I was ovulating and had the most abundant Egg White Cervical Fluid. Although we were aiming for September something in me wanted to that moment and we did!
After that came the waiting... let me just say I'm impatient and didn't make it through the two week wait. You may have read that I was getting to know my cycle via fertility awareness method. That requires you to chart your BBT(Basal Body Temperature) and I noticed how my temps stayed elevated courtesy of Fertility friend & iperiod (an iphone app) so by 6 days post ovulation, i had really bad headaches and by boobs hurt really badly. This was a mixed message coz I feel the exact same way when Aunt Flo's about to come to town. But by 9DPO, I couldn't take it anymore and proceeded to have the following conversation at the breakfast table before church bearing in mind my little sis was staying with us for that week as such she was also present at the table.
"I really need to pee"
DH being a bit perturbed replies "Then go pee, I don't see why you need to announce it"
Then I look at him knowingly as I repeat "I really really need to pee"
He finally understands and says "Well go pee"
"But what if no pee comes out, I'll be absolutely gutted"
"Well if you're meant to pee you'll pee if not there's always next time" he replies.
"I hate being disappointed, I don't want to waste my time"
At this point Hillary not grasping exactly WHAT we were discussing interjects really exasperated " Lucy will you go pee and let us eat our croissants in peace!"
That was my cue to go to the bedroom and grab me a pregnancy test.
I was tense.
I peed on the stick smuggled it to the bedroom and set my timer for 3 mins on my iphone.
2 mins in DH walks in to sit with me. The timer rings and I stay frozen.
Unable to look at the stick. SO my hubby steps up and looks at it.
Unable to believe his eyes, He turns on the light and looks again.
And there is definitely 2 lines.
the other one was fairly faint but it was there!
I'm pregnant.
I basically floated all day, seemed so surreal.
By the 3rd day in. The fear kicked in! Not good.
If it was so easy to conceive, my little bean could be taken away just like that.
I knew it was time to call in the big guns.
The mums. We picked DH's Mum up and drove her to my mum's house where we proceeded to tell them the good news. They were so pleased. I'll tell you about that day in a separate post. But we told them that we needed their prayers especially for my worrying.
I'm now 7 weeks and 2 days gone and happy.
Watch this space as the story unfolds.
Yes, you know the one, the one titled my little bean.
I'm Pregnant.
I said it. Gosh it feels soooooooo good to be able to tell you guys.
I had to shut up about it until we told our mums and then after that, I had to be careful with work (still have to be) I don't want to say anything to them till after the 12 week scan.
Just to make sure everything is OK.
How did it happen you ask? Well I was ovulating and had the most abundant Egg White Cervical Fluid. Although we were aiming for September something in me wanted to that moment and we did!
After that came the waiting... let me just say I'm impatient and didn't make it through the two week wait. You may have read that I was getting to know my cycle via fertility awareness method. That requires you to chart your BBT(Basal Body Temperature) and I noticed how my temps stayed elevated courtesy of Fertility friend & iperiod (an iphone app) so by 6 days post ovulation, i had really bad headaches and by boobs hurt really badly. This was a mixed message coz I feel the exact same way when Aunt Flo's about to come to town. But by 9DPO, I couldn't take it anymore and proceeded to have the following conversation at the breakfast table before church bearing in mind my little sis was staying with us for that week as such she was also present at the table.
"I really need to pee"
DH being a bit perturbed replies "Then go pee, I don't see why you need to announce it"
Then I look at him knowingly as I repeat "I really really need to pee"
He finally understands and says "Well go pee"
"But what if no pee comes out, I'll be absolutely gutted"
"Well if you're meant to pee you'll pee if not there's always next time" he replies.
"I hate being disappointed, I don't want to waste my time"
At this point Hillary not grasping exactly WHAT we were discussing interjects really exasperated " Lucy will you go pee and let us eat our croissants in peace!"
That was my cue to go to the bedroom and grab me a pregnancy test.
I was tense.
I peed on the stick smuggled it to the bedroom and set my timer for 3 mins on my iphone.
2 mins in DH walks in to sit with me. The timer rings and I stay frozen.
Unable to look at the stick. SO my hubby steps up and looks at it.
Unable to believe his eyes, He turns on the light and looks again.
And there is definitely 2 lines.
the other one was fairly faint but it was there!
I'm pregnant.
I basically floated all day, seemed so surreal.
By the 3rd day in. The fear kicked in! Not good.
If it was so easy to conceive, my little bean could be taken away just like that.
I knew it was time to call in the big guns.
The mums. We picked DH's Mum up and drove her to my mum's house where we proceeded to tell them the good news. They were so pleased. I'll tell you about that day in a separate post. But we told them that we needed their prayers especially for my worrying.
I'm now 7 weeks and 2 days gone and happy.
Watch this space as the story unfolds.
One Lovely Blog Award
I've been awarded the One Lovely Blog award by Ms. Baby Plan!
I'm so honoured! Thank you so much! I write my blog for 2 reasons.
it is a place to express my sometimes very conflicting thoughts but it is also a place to enable me to keep writing. I finished my English & Creative writing back in May and since my job only lets me write letters , i really do appreciate this space where i decide what i write about. I do love this blog and those who read it!
This award requires the winner to follow some points:
1. Accept the award. Post it on your blog with the name of the person who has granted the award and his or her blog link. Thank you Ms Baby Plan
2. Pay it forward to 15 other bloggers that you have newly discovered.
2. Pay it forward to 15 other bloggers that you have newly discovered.
3. Contact those blog owners and let them know they've been chosen. Done by comments.
So There you go! I love your blogs and you more than deserve a one lovely blog award!
Saturday, 11 September 2010
Happy Birthday to me!
Well I'm finally 22!
I am so grateful to God for all he has done in my life up till this point.
When I was younger, I had this notebook (It had little miss Sunshine on the cover) in it I used to write my future plans and dreams. So yes, In that sense I have always been a planner but growing up, I learnt an important lesson.
I am so grateful to God for all he has done in my life up till this point.
When I was younger, I had this notebook (It had little miss Sunshine on the cover) in it I used to write my future plans and dreams. So yes, In that sense I have always been a planner but growing up, I learnt an important lesson.
"We can make our plans,
but the Lord determines our steps."
but the Lord determines our steps."
Proverbs 16v9
This verse in particular has worked its way through my life. In that notebook of mine, I wrote about how I would finish high school, get through college and when I was 22 my prince would miraculously appear and we would get married there and then and have a beautiful house where we would raise our family.
That was my dream. It is not a bad or selfish dream, It is one that most people have but what made mine peculiar was that I thought I had to be married at that exact age and start my family at exactly 25 and be done child bearing by 30.
Life isn't like that. It just isn't. Some may be lucky to have elements of their childhood dreams come true but for most people it takes trusting and knowing that God's got your back because things don't turn out how you expect them to.
As you know part of my dreams came true but not when I wanted them to. They happened when God wanted them to. When my prince came, it was sorta an inconvenient time. I was in the middle of my degree - darn it! But I am so glad I was open to what was meant to be in my life. I truly believe that God knows best. So just trust him.
When i think back to my childhood and all the things that happened, I'm amazed. That is when the song below becomes poignant.
Enjoy!
Enjoy!
Wednesday, 1 September 2010
The End of an Era
Today, My little sister isn't so little anymore! Her passage into Year 7 marks the beginning of an avalanche of change in my family. Hillary leaving for boarding school today makes my mum an official empty nester.
Something I'm sure she expected a little later than it arrived. My mum started her nest quite late in life (for her day and age) She was 29 when she had me in 1988 and 40 when she had Hills in 1999. I'm sure she still expected to have us all till 2015 at the latest.
I flew the nest when I went off to University and never came back because I got married. Hills is off today and won't return as after boarding school, comes University too.
The funny thing is I remember when Hillary was born. She was the most sought after sibling in the history of the world! I had spent nearly a decade of my life siblingless whilst my other cousins laid claim on theirs.
Once Hillary arrived, I was able to talk about my sister and I promised myself that I would be the best big sister ever. I think I'm doing OK on that front (I've got the coaster to prove it!)
Now my sister isn't so little, she brags about her bras (A new obsession), whilst still being attached to her Nintendo DS. She has entered the In-Between stage. I'm waiting for the call to let me know she's begun her period. For now, I'll slowly mourn the departure of my cute hilly billy. But I rejoice in the knowledge that we can forge a new relationship. She actually can enjoy shopping at Claire's Accessories! and stealing my nail polish!
Today marks the end of an Era but also a beginning of another.
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